Bottle carrier and support



0. FITZSIMMONS.

BOTTLE CARRIER AND SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 2, 1920.

1,391,537. I PatentedSept. 20,1921.

INVENTOR.

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BY 6 y/fi I ATTORNEY.

UNITED {STATES PATENT OFFICE.

osnomm rirzsmmons, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE CARRIER ms snrron r. T

I a specification.

' and to expand and contract, said rings hav This invention relates to abottle carrying and supporting device of the type engageable with abottle neck.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient deviceof this character embracing a minimum number of parts having a maximumefliciency.

Anotherobject is to provide a device of this character composed ofsuperposed split rings connected to slide one on the other ing handleengaging arms and equipped with means to hold said arms diametricallyopposite at all times.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described, andthen specifically pointed out in the claims, and inthe drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing: 1

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the device constituting thisinvention.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof with the arms in section;

Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional View, on line 33 of Fig. l, and,

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view.

The embodiment of the invention herein illustrated comprises twosuperposed split rings 1 and 2 preferably constructed of heavy springwire and provided at one end with laterally extending arms 3 and 4, thearm of one ring being arranged and held diametrically opposite the otherat all times by means presently to be described. These arms 3 and 4 havetheir terminals arranged at right angles and equipped with eyes 15 forengagement by similar members carried by a bail shaped handle 16. g YThe spl't ring 1 has a band 5 fixed thereto adjacent the base of its arm4 and said band carries a sleeve 6 inwhich'ring 2 is mounted to slide. aband 7 fixed thereto with a sleeve 8 carried thereby in which sleevering 2 slides.

Specification of Letters Patent.

The other end of the ring 1 has Patentedse t. 2o, 1921.

Application filed October 2, 1920. Serial No.414,184.

The other split ring 2 has secured at its opposite ends similar -bands8and 10, respectively, each carrying asleeve 9 and 11 in which ring 1 ismounted to slide Two lugs 12 and 13 are carried, one by the ring 2 andthe other by ring 1 and are positioned atdiametr'ically opposite points,the lug on one ring being positioned between the ends of the other ringso that the bail carrying arms3 and 4. are at all times helddiametrically opposite each other.

By so, constructing this bottle carrier and providing the lugs 12 and 13the rings 1 and 2 may be expanded and contracted and moved one on theother to adapt the device to be applied. and removed with ease from abottleneck and which when in operative position will firmly grip thebottle neck and I hold the carrier securely engaged therewith.

The expansion and contraction of the respective rings is accomplished bygrasping the arms 3 and 4 and moving them toward each other in onedirection or the other and the lugs'12 and 13 operate to hold said armsdiametrically opposite at all times.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the" drawingsand set forth in the specification, but it will be unstruction withoutdeparting from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of itsadvantages.

What is claimed is:

1. In a device of the class described, a split ring having a laterallyextending arm at one end, a cooperating similarly shaped ring having itsarm located diametrically opposite the first mentioned arm, a pair ofspaced sleeves fixed to each of said rings one ring being slidablymounted in the sleeves of the. other ring, and means whereby said armsare retained always at diametrically opposite points. g

. 2. In a device "of the class described, a

split ring having a laterally extending arm are retained always atdiametrically opposleeves fixed. toeach of saidrings at opp0-.

site points. site ends thereof, one ring being mounted 3.,In a device ofthe class described, a to slide in the sleeves of the other. 10

split ring having a laterally extending arm In testimony whereof-I aflixmy signature at one end, a cooperating similarly shaped hereto.

ring having its arm located diametrically I opposite the first mentionedarm, a, pair of 'OSBORNE FITZSIMMONS.

